A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and openi...ng on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man's heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant questi...on, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines..., relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution,--there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Green, green is El Aghir. It has a railway station,And the wealth of its soil has borne many another fruit:...A mairie, a school and an elegant Salle de Fetes.Such blessings, as I remarked, in effect, to the waiter,Are added unto them that have plenty of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It looks as if we may be presented with a kind of vast municipal fire station.... What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle o...n the face of a much loved and elegant friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swi...ne. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the rea...son why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »